[CWB] unicode problems with Greek and OCS

Ruprecht von Waldenfels ruprecht.waldenfels at gmx.net
Tue Mar 10 12:07:06 CET 2015


Hi Andrew,
YES! This does solve the problem. I was thinking this setting would only 
concern tokens, not the lemma attribute, but now I understand that this 
was a wrong assumption. Thank you!
I will now look at the other problem - because that, as it turns out, is 
unrelated.
Thanks A LOT!
Ruprecht
Am 10.03.2015 um 12:02 schrieb Hardie, Andrew:
>
> Is the context size measured in characters? If so, that would explain 
> the problem, since “characters” = bytes still.
>
> If changing the context width to a given number of words fixes the 
> issue, then that is the solution.
>
> I have been working on a patch to fix this, but have not completed it yet.
>
> Andrew.
>
> *From:*cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it 
> [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] *On Behalf Of *Ruprecht von 
> Waldenfels
> *Sent:* 10 March 2015 09:54
> *To:* cwb at sslmit.unibo.it
> *Subject:* [CWB] unicode problems with Greek and OCS
>
> Dear List,
>
> I am using CWB 3.4.8 on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.10.
> After encoding a text in Old Church Slavonic, I get invalid UTF-8 
> character errors; I seem to get them only in sgml mode (I also get 
> them during alignment with the Ancient Greek translation source, which 
> might be a related problem, but I am not sure.)
>
> In order to pinpoint the problem with the Old Church Slavonic text, I 
> have reduced the text in question to two bible verses. The text can be 
> found here: www.parasolcorpus.org/test.txt 
> <http://www.parasolcorpus.org/test.txt>
>
> I encode the corpus with the following commands:
> /opt/CWBUTF8/cwb/utils/cwb-encode -d Data/ntestament_tt -f test.txt -R 
> /data/PROIEL/Registry/ntestament_tt -c utf8 -xsB -P lemma -P id -P 
> alig -P pos -P tag -S aligVerse:0
> /opt/CWBUTF8/cwb/utils/cwb-makeall -r /data/PROIEL/Registry NTESTAMENT_TT
>
> There is no problem in text mode:
>
>
>
> However, in sgml mode, some lemmas get truncated and do not contain 
> valid utf8 anymore. For example, the lemma of "с҃вщаѩи" is such a 
> token. This problem does NOT appear if I search for this token itself, 
> it ONLY and consistently appears if I search for a different token and 
> the problematic token is in the result set:
>
>
> To sum up: I get the problem only if I search for a neighboring token 
> in sgml mode. I don't get it if I search for the token itself, and I 
> don't get it in text mode. I have reduced the problem to w 50-token 
> text, and the problem persists.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Best,
> Ruprecht
>
>
>
>
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